NHL

Every summer the Stanley Cup goes on a world tour, visiting the home towns of every single player who won the Cup that year and putting whatever little vacation you have planned to shame. And this year, since the Los Angeles Kings won hockey’s Holy Grail again, the party kicked off in sunny Southern California. […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins are in the midst of a big shakeup this summer. After another disappointing playoff performance, GM Ray Shero and coach Dan Bylsma got canned, and there surely will be some tweaks made to the team’s roster. Evgeni Malkin isn’t sweating it, though. The former NHL MVP knows the team won’t be moving […]

How’s this for an exciting story: In the aftermath of the Los Angeles Kings’ Stanley Cup victory, the Los Angeles Police Department sent a small robotic drown to the Staples Center airspace in order to monitor the rowdy crowd. Then, one freedom fighter armed only with a t-shirt cannon took out the drone and preserved the […]

You know how you can tell the Stanley Cup is the greatest trophy in all of sports? Because deep down, you sorta want to be the Stanley Cup. Every guy that wins hockey’s Holy Grail gets it for one day, and on that day they do whatever they want with it. We know for a fact that […]

In recent years, f-bombs have flown pretty freely at championship celebrations. At first it was amusing because you just knew there were uptight weirdos out there who immediately fired up their type writers and cranked out angry letters to the FCC. And pissing off people like that is the best. But eventually even that lost it’s […]

The fine citizens of Los Angeles are known for their high levels of skill in areas like highway navigation, vegan smoothie consumption, and Hollywood movie production, but there just isn’t a lot of ice there to have to walk across. So it’s really no wonder that one of the Los Angeles Kings‘ fans had a […]

After the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Rangers in double-overtime of game five last night and were awarded the Stanley Cup, and after Justin Williams was handed the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, there was only one thing left for CBC to do: Send us all off with one of their great […]

The New York Rangers put forth a valiant effort, but in the end their attempt at a comeback from 3-0 down in their Stanley Cup Finals series fell short. After losing Game 4 in New York, the Los Angeles Kings closed out their best-of-seven series at home in Game 5 thanks to a game-winning goal […]

The CBC’s classic Coach’s Corner segment is often pretty weird. After all, it stars Don Cherry, a man known more for his bizarre suits and irascible disposition than his broadcasting acumen, despite having been on TV for over 30 years. However, the intro to last night’s segment was by far one of the weirdest things Coach’s […]

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and for the New York Rangers on Wednesday night, times were definitely desperate. Down 3-0 in the Stanley Cup Finals to the Los Angeles Kings, having coughed up three two-goal leads in games one and two, they needed a win to avoid the indignity of a sweep. So what […]

Well, it looks like we’re going back to Cali after all. With the New York Rangers staring a steep uphill battle straight in the eye, they were able to stave off elimination and keep the Stanley Cup Finals going for at least one more game after defeating the Los Angeles Kings in Game 4 at […]

With the Los Angeles Kings just one win away from hoisting their second Stanley Cup in three seasons, the greater Los Angles area—normally indifferent to hockey—is once again experiencing a sudden surge in the number of phoney celebrity Kings fans. Don’t get me wrong, there are real celebrity Kings fans who have proved themselves over […]

As someone who makes a living writing about sports, I never really look forward to June, when both the NHL and NBA wrap up their seasons. It leaves so very little to write about for July and August. This year is different, though. For one thing I’ll have the World Cup to write about in […]

The NBA Finals have Gregg Popovich. The Stanley Cup Finals have Darryl Sutter. Both coaches are extremely successful, and both are known for their entertaining refusal to provide meaningful answers when giving interviews to members of the media. However, they each have their own unique style. Popovich is a bit more acerbic and a bit more […]

Apparently someone thought the Los Angeles Kings needed all the help they could get during their Stanley Cup Final series against the New York Rangers. That’s because someone (reportedly from the Kings organization), put up a giant video billboard right outside the Rangers’ home turf at Madison Square Garden, starring world-renowned Kings fan Will Ferrell. The […]